From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 11:03:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02402 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smok.apk.net (root@junior.apk.net [207.54.158.15] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02367 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@junior.apk.net) Received: from junior.apk.net (stuart@junior.apk.net [207.54.158.20]) by smok.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/ts-apk-rel.980722) with ESMTP id OAA15018; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:03:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by junior.apk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA00033; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:03:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 14:03:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Krivis To: Mike Dousette cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading In-Reply-To: <001d01bdb981$aac81140$be4c18d0@mike> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Mike Dousette wrote: > I have a quick question that I couldn't find an answer for on you all's > website. I'd like to run FreeBSD on my home PC, as I prefer the Unix > environment. I was wondering though, how easy will it be to upgrade from > the 2.2.6 release when the 3.0 release is released? Will just installing > the packages over what is already there be sufficient, or is a > wipe-and-reload necessary? Would a wipe-and-reload be necessary if I were > going from 2.2.5 to 2.2.6? I can't comment on the upgrade to 3.0 since I haven't done it. However, the upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.2.7 went very smoothly. I used cvsup to do it and it took very little time actually. -- Stuart Krivis stuart@krivis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message